What are the most common surgical procedures?
What are the most common surgical procedures?
Some of the more common spine surgery procedures are minimally invasive such as discectomy, decompression and fusion. For compression fractures there are kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty. Cervical (neck), thoraric, and lumbar (lower back) fusions can also be done with modern instrumentation. For decompression of the same parts (cervical, thoraric and lumbar), the popular options are discectomy, corpectomy and laminectomy. There are also anterior (front) and posterior (back) spine operations.